George Santos admits being a ‘terrible liar’ to Britain’s Piers Morgan

George Santos also insisted he had not lied about his mother’s presence in the World Trade Center during 9/11, despite records showing she was not in New York that day. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images

George Santos, the embattled Republican congressman from New York who fabricated large swaths of his resume, admitted in an interview on Monday with Britain’s Piers Morgan that he had been a “terrible liar”.

Santos was elected to represent portions of the New York City borough of Queens and neighboring Long Island in November and a staggering number of falsehoods have come to light since. His lies include claiming to be Jewish, graduating from college, working at finance giants Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, and that his mother was in the World Trade Center during the Al-Qaida terrorist attack on 11 September 2001.